Directed by Fernando Meirelles | Starring: Alice Braga, Seu Jorge, Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

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